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With many states teetering on the brink of fiscal bankruptcy, banning capital punishment is an extremely cost-effective way of low...

be involved with the law when a capital case comes forth. Citizens are faced with ethical dilemmas that they would not come close ...

proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...

on the bandwagon for the death penalty but rather in him looking more closely at the issues surrounding that penalty. He contends...

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...

be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

death penalty to be Constitutional (White, 2006). It is interesting to note that many nations around the world, democratic...

foremost and absolutely critical to the success of any community cohesiveness; oftentimes just the presence of too many patrol off...

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...

car accidents). In light of how diverse murder can be deemed in the courts of law it seems important to note that the death penalt...

history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...

same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...

A 12 page paper which discusses how and why the death penalty is obsolete and useless. Bibliography lists 10 sources....

used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...

justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...

penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...

In five pages this essay refutes each of the arguments posed by proponents of California's death penalty. There are four bibliogr...

In a paper consisting of five pages the history of the death penalty in the United States is briefly considered along with an exam...

In eleven pages extradition is examined in history and in concept with such issues as the death penalty, drug trafficking and the ...

upon those unlucky enough to experience it. There were a number of crimes that warranted capital punishment, although there...